Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:12:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul W Brannan <pbranna AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
Reply-To: Paul W Brannan <pbranna AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
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Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
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> > > real vt100 even if you don't mind those excellent things - when i
try to
> > > use smth like say,term90 from Norton Commander and elm on unix system or
> > > irc client or smth like that i have to press ^L every few seconds to keep
> > > something on the screen because emulation is buggy!
> > 
> > For straight serial ports I use Telix, and their VT100 emulation is pretty
> > good, I haven't had any problems (modulo the double width and height, of
> > course).  I've had problems with telnet in an xterm session on Unix, though.
> 
> How do you think Kermit stacks up?

Kermit's vt320 emulation is good.  I like Odyssey personally.  One of the
problems with about 95% of all terminal emulators is that they don't
support 8-bit mode.  It took me a while to figure this out when I was
writing my terminal emulator, but once I did, I realized that EDIT on VMS
uses 8-bit ANSI sequences; Instead of sending ASCII digits as colors, it
sends actual numbers represented as ASCII characters.  Kermit and Odyssey
(if you tell it not to strip the parity bit in vt320 mode) both support
this, but I don't think that Telix does.

Another problem with VT100 emulators is that some do not support
scrolling.  Odyssey, unfortunately, does not, unless you use VT100
emulation, in which case you don't get any color.  I don't remember if
Telix does or not, but I think it suffers from the same problem that Telix
does.

I think the best option is a VT100 emulator that supports ANSI sequences.

Paul